The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, November 30, 1999 - 7 ustices to rule on state law regarding hate crimes Tic Baltimore Sun WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court, gien a chance to shape the nation's laws against hate- crimes, agreed yesterday to define state power to impose added punishment for a crimi- nal who is motivated by racial or religious bias. Six years after its last ruling on the issue, the ourt said it would decide the constitutionality New Jersey law that gives a judge broad dis- cretion to tack on heavier sentences when a crime results from prejudice. The coming decision does not appear likely to deny states the power to pass hate crime laws, said Steven Freeman, legal director of the Anti- Defamation League, a leading proponent of such laws. Rather, the justices will be sorting out how difficult it will be to increase the penalties when a crime results from bias against a minor- ity individual or group. In 1993, the court ruled in a Wisconsin case that states may increase penalties for bias-moti- vated offenses, saying such laws target primarily actions and not thoughts or beliefs. The Constitution generally bars punishment for one's thoughts. But the 1993 decision left unanswered the procedures that courts would have to follow under those laws. New Jersey was one of the first states to adopt a hate crimes law, patterning its 1981 measure after a proposal by the Anti-Defamation League. Now, 39 other states have enacted laws similar to the league's model. In basic outline, those laws do not create a separate offense of "hate crime" Rather, they add to the length of sentences for crimes that are found to have been motivated by racial, reli- gious, ethnic or other discrimination. New Jersey's law is somewhat unusual. The judge, not the jury, decides whether the crime was motivated by bias. In addition, the judge can draw that conclusion based on the lowest stan- dard of proof: that the evidence of bias simply outweighs the evidence to the contrary. In most other states, prosecutors must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the criminal was motivated by discrimination. The New Jersey Supreme Court, upholding that state's law in June, said the Constitution does not require the tougher standard of proof or that the task be given to a jury. The extra pun- ishment is not a specific part of the crime, but only a sentencing factor, the state court ruled. The law's constitutionality was challenged in an appeal to the justices by Charles Apprendi, a phar- macist in VinelandN.J., who asked the court to over- turn his 12-year prison sentence under the state law. Apprendi had been given a heavier pun- ishment for the crime of possessing a gun with an unlawful purpose. Prosecutors accused him of firing shots into the home of a black family living near him. 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To fund the $7 billion in new spend- ing, Congress approved, among other things, a plan - pushed by conserva- tive advocates of fiscal discipline in Congress - to cut spending across the board, instead of dipping into the tril- lion-dollar federal surplus. Republicans had initially proposed a 1.3 percent cut, but that plan fizzled. Lawmakers later agreed on 0.38 percent across the board, excluding military per- sonnel, with savings of $1.3 billion for next year. The deal gives the president flexibility in distributing the cuts. Policymakers on both sides sang their own praises for increasing spend- ing without depleting the surplus, which would have drained funds from the Social Security program and delayed payments on the national debt. But Wittman said conservatives had abandoned their commitment to slow- ing the growth of the federal treasury. "The economy is growing much quicker than the government,' he said, tempting both parties to spend on new government programs. 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"The Congress and the president used to work more amicably," he recalled, looking back on his years in the capital. Earlier in the year, after a spate of school shootings across the country, both chambers took up gun control. With partisanship in high gear, law- makers offered only modest proposals and adopted incremental reforms. The legislation never cleared the confer- ence between House members and Senators to synthesize the two ver- sions. On health care reform, with divisive rhetoric and mud-slinging on display,. the House and Senate made headway in the effort to protect the rights of patients using managed care providers. But once again, two different versions of the legislation died in conference. A Republican plan for a S792 billion tax cut shared a similar fate. The House and Senate never resolved differences between their two plans and GOP lead- ers were unable to rally support to over- ride a presidential veto. 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